State ex rel. Curtis v. Town Board of Geneva
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wal-worth county: FbanK M. Fish, Circuit Judge. They contended, inter alia, that only those qualified to be signers of an application for the laying out of a highway can appeal from the refusal to grant such application. In this case the relator, not being a resident of the town, was not qualified to sign a petition for the laying out .of the highway in question. Sec. 1265, Stats. 1898; Damp v. Dane, 29 Wis. 419; /State ex rel.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wal-worth county: FbanK M. Fish, Circuit Judge. They contended, inter alia, that only those qualified to be signers of an application for the laying out of a highway can appeal from the refusal to grant such application. In this case the relator, not being a resident of the town, was not qualified to sign a petition for the laying out .of the highway in question. Sec. 1265, Stats. 1898; Damp v. Dane, 29 Wis. 419; /State ex rel. Iola v. Nelson, 57 Wis. 147.
1Opinion of the Court
Cassoday, C.'J.
On January 11, 1897, an application was made to the defendant, The Town Board of the Town of Geneva, in Walworth county, to lay out the highway in question. On February 20, 1897, the town board decided upon such application, and by a written order in due form by them signed and then filed with the town clerk, denied such application and refused to lay out such proposed highway. The relator, Lewis Curtis, who then was, and is, a • citizen of the state, a freeholder in the town of Geneva, and the owner of land across which the proposed highway was to be laid, but who was a…
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